On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:51:16 -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:57:38PM -0600, Richard A. Smith wrote: >> Last week I did an 'apt-get update' of a debain unstable and now I've >> noticed that my /proc fs is broke. >> >> It appears to be mounted correctly and all the entries show up if you >> do a 'ls' but if you actually try to look at an entry its just blank. > >Well, you're not the only one to see this problem... I always though I >was! I never figured out what caused it, and I haven't seen it in
I actually solved it that night but I didn't post because I didn't see any response. But since a few others had the issue I'll outline what fixed it for me. For me turns out the the /proc *was not* mounted. Even though mount said it was. Somehow I managed to copy a snapshot of the procfs onto the actuall /proc directory. In otherwords /proc was not an empty directory. It had a snapshot of a previously running system. Somehow this caused /proc to not get mounted from fstab. But oddly enough only /proc, all the other filesystems in fstab mounted correctly. And typing a 'mount' indicated that /proc was mounted. I discovered it by looking at /etc/mtab which said that /proc was _not_ mounted. Once I did a rm -r on the fake /proc all was well. So I guess the moral is don't trust the output of 'mount' if things are flaky or at least cross check it with /etc/mtab. I doub't that this was something to do with my upgrade. Probally something else I flubbed and just a fluke. I was messing with moving stuff around so I must have flubbed a 'cp -a' somewhere. I haven't tried to duplicate it yet either. I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader or for another time. -- Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 501.846.5777 x204 Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
